Whan the famous / worthi duke of Clarence [Thomas, Duke of Clarence (1388?-1421), second son of Henry IV., by his first wife, Mary de Bohun. . . After Henry V.'s marriage, he accompanied the king at his triumphal entry into Paris on Dec. 1, 1420. On Henry's departure for England at the end of Jan. 1421, Clarence was appointed Captain of Nor|mandy and Lieutenant of France in the king's absence. Soon after, he started on a raid thro' Maine and Anjou, and advanced as far as Beaufort-en-Vallée, near the Loire. Meantime the Dauphin had collected his forces, and, being joind by a strong body of Scottish knights, reached Beaugé, in the English rear, on March 21. Clarence, on hearing the news, at once set out with his cavalry, not waiting for the main body of his army. He drove in the Scottish outposts, but was in his turn overwhelmed, and, together with many of the knights who accompanied him, was slain. His defeat was due to his own impatience, and his anxiety to win a victory which might compare with Agincourt. After his death the archers, under the Earl of Salisbury, came up and recovered the bodies of the slain (Cotton MS., Claud. A, viii., leaf 10 a). Clarence's body was carried back to England, and buried at Canterbury.—Dict. Nat. Biog., lvi., 158, 159.] [worthi] LH, & worthy R.]
Rood on baiard / with his eynë blynde,— [eyne] Ien H, eyen R.]
Fliht of my fetheris / was put out of mynde; [was put] LR, that day H.]
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And, for he sett / of me, that day no fors, [of me that day] LH, that day of me R.]
Ful litel or nouht / availed hym his hors. [Ful . . nouht] LH, So . . nought / what R.]
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¶ "Bookis old / remembren in sentence [Bookis] LR, The bookes H.]
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Som tyme whan Romë / bi his foon was take, [Som tyme . . foon] Whilom . . foomen H, Whilom . . foon R.]
The Capitoilë kept / with gret deffence:
Noise of a Gandre / the Capteyn did awake; [The Grey Lag-Goose is one of the most wary and knowing of birds, yet the word 'Goose,' as applied to men and women, is a term of ridicule, and this not|withstanding that the bird is credited with having saved Rome; neither can we forget that the Grey Goose feather winged the deadly cloth-yard shafts, which, on many a hard-fought field, against overwhelming odds, brought victory to the side of England.—1897, Dr. Henry O. Forbes in Butler's British Birds, iv. 58.] [did awake] LH, dide wake R.]
Which thyng remembryd / thei sett vp for his sake, [thyng] LH, om. R. thei sett vp] LR, om. H.]
In her templis wondir wide & olde, [here tem|plis] theyr temple . so H, their temples, om. wondir . R.]
A largë gandre / forgid of fyn golde. [large] LR, grete H. of] LH, al of R.]
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¶ "His wakir noise / was their savacïoun [their] they H, theire R, the L.]
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Bi which the Capteyn / ran vp to the wall: [ran vp to] gate vpon H, ran vpon R.]
